Shabana for Asian Film Awards |
Bollywood`s senior actress Shabana Azmi, who along with Smita Patil, Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah helped the Indian New Wave in the 1970s with brilliant portrayals, has been nominated for the Asian Film Awards as one of the five actresses in a supporting role `Neerja`. The work recalls in a fiction feature the tragic killing of a Pan Am stewardess, Neerja Bhanot, during a Libyan-backed hijack at Karachi airport in 1986. Shabana plays mother of Neerja in the biopic. The Awards - which will this year take place in Hong Kong to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the territory`s handover -- will be announced on March 21. For the past three years, Macau had been the venue.Other than Azmi`s, Indian cinema, despite being miles and miles ahead of the other Asian nations in movie production, has not been able to garner any nomination.
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